Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”
Steve Blank
JANUARY 17, 2023
Three types of organizations – Incubators, Accelerators and Venture Studios – have emerged to reduce the risk of early-stage startup failure by helping teams find product/market fit and raise initial capital. He had a track record of taking small teams and growing them into successful product lines.
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 30, 2011
This is the final part of a 3-part series on the major changes in the structure of the software & the venture capital industries. The opportunities for tech startups today are more immense than they’ve ever been with billions of people now connected to the Internet nearly all the time.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 15, 2010
I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. Golden rule of branding for me: 1) name your company or product your URL and 2) don’t paint yourself into a corner. &# Tweet&# = corner. You go onto the Internet and can control what people hear on terrestrial radio. uh, hello!
Steve Blank
APRIL 4, 2023
(Researchers believe this tipping point is result of the complex interactions between the neural network architecture and the massive amounts of training data it has been exposed to – essentially everything that was on the Internet as of September 2021.) Other economists are just realizing the ripple effect that this technology will have.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 1, 2017
The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 6, 2019
The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”
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